On yacht sailing : a simple treatise for beginners upon the art of handling small yachts and boats (1904)
Day, Thomas Fleming, 1861-1927 · New York : Rudder Pub. Co. · leaf 45
se to the wind; give herwhat is called a good full, and keep her moving all thetime. Remember, that every wave is a hill that theboat has to climb over, and she needs all the drive possiblein order to do it. You must learn how to help her withthe helm to take these seas easily, first by luffing… … GOING FREE. SAILING OFF THE WIND AILING off the wind, or going free, is a different action from that of sailing on the wind. Sailing free is purely a natural movement, complicated bythe fact that a vessel, owing to her weight obliging her torest in the water, cannot move as freely as a fabric…
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